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BreatheSuite Secures FDA Approval

  • Sep 28, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

St. John’s-based medtech company BreatheSuite Inc. has received 510(K) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its device that helps people to user their inhalers properly.

Receiving FDA clearance means that BreathSuite can now

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Marketing Entrepreneurs Launch Software Firm

  • Sep 28, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The owners of Halifax marketing agency Kula Partners have spun off a software development company that promises to bring private-sector, user-centred design sensibilities to public sector agencies.

Business partners Jeff White and Carman Pirie

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Design2Build Announces Cohort

  • Sep 28, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University has announced the startup cohort for its second annual Design2Build accelerator -- an eight-month program meant to help deep tech entrepreneurs develop and manufacture their products.

The accelerator is split into three

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Meta Announces Research Grants

  • Sep 27, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Halifax advanced materials unicorn Metamaterials Inc., which boasts a C$2.1 billion market cap on the Nasdaq, will dole out a basket of $150,000 research grants, with winners being announced January, 2022.

The grant program, called Ideas for

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Bernadette Fernandes Joins Emergence

  • Sep 27, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Emergence, the life sciences incubator based on Prince Edward Island and targeting a national market, has made a new hire: Bernadette Fernandes, a corporate consultant who specializes in export development.

Since 2011, Fernandes has been CEO of The

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Volta Unveils Ecosystem Awards

  • Sep 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Volta, the Halifax-based startup hub, has recognized six Atlantic Canadian groups and individuals with its annual Ecosystem Impact Awards, which it announced last week.

Launched in 2019, the Ecosystem Impact Awards recognize the people who are

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Dissecting East Coast Startup Valuations

  • Sep 26, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Our valuations panel at Entrevestor Live should shed light on a long-standing question for many East Coast founders: how do startup valuations in Atlantic Canada compare with other places?

This question has been in the air for years, and no doubt

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NBIF Readies Green Fund

  • Sep 23, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Opportunities New Brunswick are launching a climate impact fund to finance private-sector initiatives to mitigate and adapt to climate change, with funding coming from the federal government’s

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Drinkable Water Wins Ready2Launch

  • Sep 23, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

Drinkable Water Solutions, a Halifax-based team developing a graphene-based sensor to monitor water quality, has won Dalhousie University’s Ready2Launch pitch competition.

Ready2Launch is a three-month accelerator that helps participants to

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MOC Readies Bioprinting Tech

  • Sep 22, 2021
  • Avery Mullen

When Ali Mousavi and Arash Helmi joined the Startup Visa program sponsored by Nova Scotia venture capital Crown corporation Innovacorp, it was not from their home country of Iran, but thanks to a South Korean startup competition.

Mousavi and Helmi

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What To Do With Innovacorp’s $101M?

  • Sep 22, 2021
  • Peter Moreira

Talks are now under way between Innovacorp and the Nova Scotia government about what should be done with the $104 million that Innovacorp received from its investment in Metamaterials Inc.

Last week, Entrevestor reported that the Nova Scotia

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Sperri Sales Surge After Award

  • Sep 21, 2021
  • Carol Moreira
Halifax-based Novagevity is celebrating a surge in demand for Sperri its organic, plant-based meal replacement drink, and is raising funds to finance staffing, R&D and distribution.
 
The company is about half-way through a Series A round in which
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